Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh


Hamirpur district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India and Hamirpur town is the district headquarters. Hamirpur district is a part of Chitrakoot Division. The district occupies an area of 4,121.9 km². The district has a population of 1,104,285. As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Uttar Pradesh, after Mahoba and Chitrakoot. Two major rivers Yamuna and Betwa meet here. On the banks of river Betwa lies the "Coarse sand" which is exported to many parts in U.P.

Economy

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Hamirpur one of the country's 250 most backward districts. It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh has a population of 1,104,285, roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus or the US state of Rhode Island. This gives it a ranking of 417th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 5.78%. Hamirpur has a sex ratio of 860 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 70.16%.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 98.55% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 1.36% Urdu as their first language.
Tongues spoken in Hamirpur include Bundeli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bundelkhand.

Notable persons